noelle genevier
Noelle Genevier lives and works in Surrey and has recently completed a Fine Art MA. Noelle Genevier’s multi-disciplinary work is based in materiality where paper takes precedence. The interdisciplinary practice includes installations, collage, screen printing, zine production and digital design. The work contains themes of the everyday and nature with a focus on the environment. The convergence of matter and meshing of materials reflects the search for a new comprehension of how the world works and where humans reside within it. Noelle has had several exhibitions over the past five years including a public installation for the National Trust, Dapdune Wharf and Surrey Hills Arts, an ongoing residency and collage workshop delivery with Waterman’s Arts, featured in an exhibition at Bloc Projects, the London Group, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield and Artizan Gallery, Torbay and is a member of an artist group, Splynta Collective.
The work is looking at entanglement and the embedding of old knowledge into new concepts creating new systems with which to view the future. The flow of ideas back and forth into the past, through the present into the future weaving new stories. The entwining of technology with historical wisdom and practises can be seen in the work. It looks at the resilience of plants and what can be learnt from this.
Through the unseen the work reflects on the natural world using the medium of collage, screen printing and digital design. The work looks at the complex connections and associations we have with our surroundings. It teases out the layers of information that are contained in a single viewpoint or image and recombines them speculatively. It looks in depth, beyond what is physically possible and at underlying constructs of things which are familiar to us. The work looks at the unseen: things that are seen but not noticed – veins on a leaf the sewn stitches on a seam, things that cannot be seen with the naked eye, abstract things: ideas, thoughts, dreams. Things that are out of the line of sight on the periphery of our vision. The areas out of focus in a photograph, the space between what we see, its translation in our mind to its definition – the conglomeration of shapes and colours that become interpreted by language, experience and knowledge. It considers the idea of reality; is the thing we see actually what it is?
The conventional view we have of things and how we communicate with them is challenged in the work which is influenced by Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter; in which she asks the viewer to envisage creating a new way of looking at the world. A view which does away with the hierarchical idea that humans are the only agents on the planet. The work embodies Jane Bennett’s idea that we are all interconnected as humans and with our environment. All things (human, living, non-human and non-living) are made up of several parts each part working to maintain a whole and to stay connected to other parts this can be seen in the collages where each image supports is neighbour through colour, texture and subject matter. These interlocking networks (or patterns) and interconnection are something that can be found in the work.
Noelle Genevier Curriculum Vitae
https://www.axisweb.org/p/noellegenevier/
https://www.instagram.com/subliminal_haze22/
https://indd.adobe.com/view/8897b54c-a300-4bb1-b6c9-2ddf237f93cf
Education
2019 – 2021 MA Fine Art, UCA Farnham
2016 – 2019 BA (Hons), Fine Art UCA, Farnham
1995 – 1997 Art Foundation, University of Creative Arts, Epsom
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Have you Started Again? Leatherhead, UK
2019 Objections, Linear Gallery, Farnham, UK
Invisible Divisions, Ollie Quinn Gallery, Brighton, UK
2018 Sub-Liminal Haze, Cave Gallery, London, UK
Sub-Liminal Haze 2, Leatherhead, UK
Group Exhibitions
2022 Above and Below, Artizan Gallery, Torbay
Metamorphosis, Haus-a-rest, online
The Specimen Cabinet, Sheffield, UK
Tebbs Contemporary Art Gallery Emerging Artist of the Year, London, UK
Carbon Borders Voices, Instagram and online (ongoing)
2021 ALT-terior, James Hockey Gallery Farnham, UK
MA Degree Show, UCA Farnham, UK
Edge to Edge, the Cello Factory, London, UK
Forgotten Thought, Safehouse 1, London, UK
What Do We Know (Anyway)? Bloc Project, Sheffield, UK
Unsettled Focus, South Molton Street gallery, London, UK
Heathlands Artwork, Farnham Heath, Surrey Hills Arts, UK
Vibrant Landings, Hounslow Libraries CPP Hounslow, UK (ongoing)
Beyond the Boundaries, Foyer Gallery, Farnham UK and online
The Sky Has No Surface, Instagram and online exhibition
2020 Coronapocalypse! (online exhibition)
Materiality (online exhibition) @materiality_exhibition
The Garage, @housebound, Chapel Artists’ Studios, Andover, online, UK
2019 In Between, Cranleigh, UK
Farther Apart, Farnham, UK
Chameleon, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Generations and Nations, Farnham, UK
BA Degree Show, Farnham, UJ
Tumblehome, National Trust, Dapdune Wharf, Guildford, UK
Pint-Sized, Brewery Tap, Folkestone, UK
2018 Think Thunk, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Steak and Beans, Safehouse 1, London, UK
2017 Edge of Time, History Museum, Aldershot UK
Disponere, 5th Base Gallery, London, UK
Everyday, Linear Gallery, Farnham, UK
2016 Into the Dark, Menier Gallery, London, UK
Residencies
2021 Atmospheric Colour, Hounslow, UK (ongoing)
2021 Online Curatorial Residency, @Undertow Project
2020 Isolation Alliance, @murze magazine, online, UK
Curation
2021 Unseen Things and Woven Systems Congregating at the Edge of the World, UCA Farnham, UK
2021 Forgotten Thought, Safehouse 1, London, UK
2021 Unsettled Focus, South Molton Street Gallery, London, UK
2019 Objections, Linear Gallery, Farnham, UK
2018 Valid Equal, Bournemouth, UK (co-curated with: Sascha Byrne, Pui Kan, Elizabeth Kasavuli Davies)
2017 Her Ship is Sinking, Ikea, Croydon, UK (co-curated with Abi Braley, Alexandra
Dyason, Freyja Harrison and Pui Kan) in collaboration with Rosie Greenhagh, Tim Pugh, Alke Schmidt and Amy Sterly
Commissions
2015 Do Not Bury Your Talents
St Peter’s School, Leatherhead; public work, 2 mosaics 2m x .90m and 1.4m x .75m
Publications
2021 Beyond the Boundaries, Art Exhibition zine
2020 Coronapolcalypse! Part of an online and published exhibition
Interview with Art Habens online art magazine
Unsettling Focus, Art Exhibition zine